Voltaire B. Dupo, ECE, MSc. ECE

Part Time Faculty

Educational Background

Master of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering
De La Salle University

Post Graduate Diploma in Science Teaching – Major in Physics and Minor in Biology
University of the Philippines Open University

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Don Bosco Technical College – Mandaluyong

Voltaire is an Electronics and Communications Engineer with 10 years of experience in Clinical Engineering and  Technology Management as well as Health Facilities Management from his work with Mercado General Hospital and QualiMed Health Network in the past.  He currently doing research in  sensors (Haptic) primarily for Rehabilitation Medicine and is actively working together with the Evelyn D. Ang Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Health Technologics working towards the commercialization of the Automated Portable Robotic Orthosis (APRO) as an assistive device with potential uses for Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation Medicine.  He is listed as co-inventor for three patents co-owned by De La Salle University which are related to the device APRO and ReuLS.

Research Interest

  • Commercialization of Biomedical Devices in the Philippines
  • Clinical Engineering Technology Management and Education
  • Biosensors for Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Application of Robotics towards Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapy Assistive Devices

Selected Publications

  • Robotic Exoskeleton Safety Compliance, Evaluation Development Tool and Application. In: Mahyuddin, N.M., Mat Noor, N.R., Mat Sakim, H.A. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 829. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8129-5_1611 
  • “An EMG-based Gesture Recognition for Active-assistive Rehabilitation,” 2020 IEEE 12th International Conference on Humanoid, Nanotechnology, Information Technology, Communication and Control, Environment, and Management (HNICEM), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi:10.1109/HNICEM51456.2020.9400132.
  • A cost-effective method of assessing practicability of electromagnetic shielding materials AIP Conference Proceedings 2193, 050015 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5139388
  • Electromagnetic shielding to improve EMC of a robotic medical device AIP Conference Proceedings 2193, 050014 (2019); https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5139387
  • Red blood cells and white blood cells detection, differentiation and counting using image processing DLSU Research Congress, 2015 – dlsu.edu.ph

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